Mohammad Bagheri Motamed (born in 1985, Tehran) is an outstanding talented Iranian taekwondo athlete who specializes in sparring. There are three types of taekwondo competitions: patterns (harmonious movements), breaking (of hard objects), and sparring (two men combat).

He snatched the gold medal in the men’s 68 kg (featherweight class), at the 2009 Taekwondo World Championships in Copenhagen, breaking a four-year spell on the national team.
Motamed is gifted with all the factors necessary for being a champion including high technical ability, physical fitness, strength, stamina, agility, speed, intelligence, and perseverance.
His brilliant performance dazzled all the sports analysts present at the event and all envisioned a brilliant future for his blossoming career.
“My medal is the result of coaches’ trust in the youth like me; I trained hard for nine months and it yielded,” he enthused.
Before the event he, along with his coach Reza Mehmandust, watched and analyzed the films of all archrivals’ matches.
In Denmark, he beat Venezuelan, Chinese, and American opponents coasting to the semifinals. In the semifinal, he faced the tough Turkish bronze-winner at Beijing Olympic Games.
Having outperformed the Turkish athlete, he made it into finals, where he thrashed stunningly the Mexican opponent in a thrilling battle and grabbed the coveted gold medal.
The Iranian team, composed of eight players, came second in the championship for the fifth time reinforcing itself as a world taekwondo powerhouse.
Motamed believes that South Koreans, who came first, seized the championship resorting to their influence in the World Taekwondo Federation and utilizing unfair decisions made by biased referees.
“But the important point is that Iran’s young team proved that we can trust the youth,” he said. Out of eight athletes sent to Denmark, seven attended the world championship for the first time. “In this year’s competitions, all teams had made significant progress, the first and final stages didn’t differ much (in terms of competitiveness),” he said.
He first joined the Iranian national team at the age of 15, and since then has starred in all age groups. Motamed believes that Mehmandust is a matchless teakwondo coach, “from the first time I was called up to the national team at the age of 15, I have continued my training under his supervision.”
He attributes the success of the national team and himself to the conscientious efforts made by the head coach and the regular well-organized training sessions designed by him. The twenty-four year old athlete is considered a great asset to the national team. Iranians hope to see him winning gold medal in the 2012 London Olympic Games.